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What is the year 2022 commonly known as the Year of the Tiger?

The year 2022 is commonly known as the Year of the Tiger in the Chinese lunar calendar, the Year of the Nonnyin.

The year 2022 is the Year of the Tiger, and 2022 is the Year of the Renyin on the lunar calendar.The Year of the Tiger 2022 begins on the first day of the first month of the year 2022 on the lunar calendar, not on January 1, 2022, New Year's Day on the Gregorian calendar.

The Year of the Tiger is based on the traditional Chinese calendar, in which the "tiger" in the Chinese zodiac corresponds to the Yin in the twelve earthly branches, and the Year of the Tiger is the Year of the Yin, with every twelve years as a cycle. For example, the year 2022 on the lunar calendar is the year of the Imjin.

Ancient people used animals to remember the reason for the year

Sixty A Zi chronicle, the heavenly stem for the A B C D Penta Geng Xin Nong Dui 10, the Earth's branches for the son of the clowns, cinmao chen, Si, Wu Wei, Shen You Xu Hai 12. From the Azi, B ugly, C Yin, Ding Mao arrangement, just 60 row after a cycle.

This is a little complicated and not good to remember, so the ancients thought of using animals to express the complexity of the earth's branches, which is the Chinese zodiac. Zi rat, ugly cow, Yin tiger, Mao rabbit, chen dragon, Si snake, afternoon horse, ungoat, Shen monkey, You chicken, Hundred Days Dog, Ohio pig.